THE THEME OF “RELEVANCE” IN THIRD WORLD HUMAN SCIENCES
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- 1 December 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
- Vol. 16 (2) , 123-140
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.1995.tb00072.x
Abstract
The fact that the humanities and social sciences in developing societies generally originated in the West has raised the issue of the relevance of these arts and sciences to the needs and problems of Third World societies. This questioning of relevance has led, in turn, to the call for the indigenisation of knowledge in developing societies. While there has been a great deal of discussion on indigenisation, there has been little practice of indigenised humanities and social science. As a result, there are few examples of what indigenous knowledge constitutes from theoretical, methodological and empirical points of view. This paper is directed towards arriving at some conception of what indigenised knowledge is, the various forms that it takes, and its rationale.Keywords
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